Some observations on "Issues of Economic Development: the Sub-Saharan African Countries" with a view to designing comparative research on related issues [PDF]
, 2017 This is a piece by Boston University professor Ann Seidman, reviewing a book on Sub-Saharan African development and expanding upon its ...
Seidman, Ann
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Attitudes toward Uncertainty among the Poor: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia [PDF]
We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task.
Akay, Alpaslan +3 more
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Fiscal Decentralization and Peasants' Financial Burden in China [PDF]
This paper sheds light on the heavy financial burden on peasants in China's fiscal decentralization system. Using a political economy framework, this paper explores the tax-farming nature of China's fiscally decentralized system and examines why the ...
Chunli Shen, Heng-fu Zou, Jing Jin
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Why Nicaraguan Peasants Remain in Agricultural Production Cooperatives [PDF]
Many Nicaraguan peasants remain members in agricultural production cooperatives despite the change in the policy environment that now supports parcellation of cooperative lands into individual holdings.
Lerman, Zvi, Ruben, Ruerd
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Chinese peasant entrepreneurs: an examination of township and village [PDF]
, 1996 One of the greatest achievements in China's economic reform is the development of rural township and village enterprises (TVEs). Their importance in the national economy can be seen from the fact that by the end of 1993, TVEs accounted for nearly one ...
Chen, N, Fan, Y, Kirby, D
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Leisure and Agrarian Reform: Liberal Governance in the Traveling Museums of Spanish Misiones Pedagógicas (1931–1933) [PDF]
, 2011 This article examines the program of bringing itinerant art museums to the rural areas implemented by the Misiones Pedagógicas of Spain’s Second Republic.
Afinoguénova, Eugenia
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Implementation of Romanian Agrarian Reform Regulations in Bessarabia and Bucovina during between-war Period [PDF]
Codrul Cosminului, 2010 The article talks about achieving conditions of agrarian reform in the years 1920-1921, in Bukovina and Bessarabia. The journals and archival documents, which refer to this problem, are not fully used in the scientific literature.
Oleksandr Rusnak
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Behavioral Decision of Employment for Rural Labors: Evidence from Peasant Households in Central China [PDF]
Based on the facts of the peasant household and its labors, this paper analyses rational behavior strategy of the peasants and studies the microeconomic impact factors on the peasant behavior of employment with a discrete choice model.
Li, Ying, Wang, Chunchao
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The Soviet 1931-1933 Famines and the Ukrainian Holodomor [PDF]
, 2008 This seminal essay, that has gained wide recognition and has been published in the US, France, Italy, Russia and Ukraine, uses the many, outstanding studies published in recent years to sketch the outline of a new interpretation of the 1931-1933 Soviet ...
GRAZIOSI, ANDREA
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, 2011 This review of Chris Wickham's Framing the Early Middle Ages situates the book within the context of his earlier writings on the transition to feudalism, and contrasts his explanation for and dating of the process with those of the two main opposing ...
Davidson, Neil
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